2023: Shehu Sani declares for governorship, says, Kaduna under El-Rufai, a ‘mess he’s out to clean’

Ahead of 2023 general election, the former Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial district and Civil Rights activist, Shehu Sani has declared for governorship, saying, Kaduna State under governor Nasir El-Rufai has been a mess, he would clean when he became governor.

Sani who was elected into the upper legislative Chamber in 2015 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and served for four years, during which he was the Senate Committee Chairman on Foreign and Local Debts is now a Chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Speaking in a Radio interview which was monitored by CAPITAL POST in Kaduna, he stated that he will contest Kaduna State governorship on PDP platform, while insisting that a mess has been created in Kaduna State by El-Rufai.

“I will clean all the dirt they brought in the state in the name of development”, he made a categorical statement.

The Civil Rights activist who has never hidden his distaste for El-Rufai’s mishandling of State affairs that has affected the people badly insisted that Kaduna people deaerves better treatment, given its strategic placement in Nigeria.

Sani’s reasoning was no different from some prominent residents and watchers of development in Kaduna State, even as El-Rufai has come under serious criticisms for his mishandling of Civil servants, growing insecurity in the Christian dominated Southern Kaduna and other issues that puts the State in bad shape today.

Sani disclosed that loyalists and supporters wanted him to contest governorship which he has agreed to do so, adding that the APC will be removed in Kaduna State in 2023.

Given his resolution, CAPITAL POST recalled that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did well in the last Local Government Council elections in the State and if the tempo was maintained, that may be an end of APC.

“We sat with my loyalists and supporters and they wanted me to contest the governor of Kaduna state which I will do to remove APC, God willing.”

According to him, he is pointed “to remove anointed candidate of the State governor and to enter government house where comrade will be sworn in as the next governor that will bring changes, that will clean all the dirt they brought in the state in the name of development.”

The ex-lawmaker disclosed that his supporters have also tasked him to end insecurity at all costs, which he.agreed with them, while he called on Kaduna pepe to support his ambition.

“I also solicit for their prayers; I need the prayers of religious leaders, marketers, physically challenged, women and youths. You voted for Mallam as governor what remains now is to have a comrade as a governor so as to see the difference between us.

“You must reject the anointed candidate ‎of those who demolished your houses. Support us to see how we form a government that respects the will of the poor in the state.”